Answer to Question #214763 in Inorganic Chemistry for zura

Question

Strong field ligands able to increase the magnitude of splitting energy in an octahedral transition metal complexes via -acceptor interaction.

Answer 1

The electrons in the d orbitals of the central metal ion and those in the ligand repel each other due to repulsion between like charges. Therefore, the d electrons closer to the ligands will have a higher energy than those further away, which results in the d orbitals splitting in energy.